2019 PRCA Media Guide - Awards

The PRCA award honors contract personnel (such as announcers, bullfighters, clowns, specialty acts, secretaries and timers) who have been PRCA members for at least 15 years and have committed their lives to the rodeo industry, yet received little recognition for their commitment and contributions. The nomination process was open; an external selection committee chose five finalists, and PRCA contract personnel members voted among the finalists.The posthumous recipient of the inaugural Contract Personnel Lifetime Achievement Award was long-time PRCA secretary Donita Barnes, wife of ProRodeo Hall of Fame inductee and PRCA stock contractor Bob Barnes, and mentor to thousands of contestants and others involved with Barnes rodeos. The PRCA renamed the award in her honor in 2012. The 2018 recipient of the Donita Barnes Lifetime Achievement Award was the late Hadley Barrett, who for decades announced at big and small rodeos throughout the U.S., theWrangler National Finals Rodeo (1968, 1976, 1979, 1983 and 2008), National Finals Steer Roping (1967) and seven times at the Canadian Finals. The veteran announcer was named PRCA Announcer of the Year four times (1983, 1985, 1989 and 2002) and was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame in 1999. Donita Barnes Lifetime Achievement Award

Recipients of the Donita Barnes Lifetime Achievement Award are: 2011 Donita Barnes 2012 Art and Linda Alsbaugh 2013 Fred and Norma Dorenkamp 2014 Quail Dobbs 2015 Cotton Rosser 2016 Karen Vold 2017 Jim and Julie Sutton 2018 Hadley Barrett

Legendary PRCA Announcer Hadley Barrett, left, who passed away on March 2, 2017, left a lasting mark on the PRCA and rodeo industry. The final rodeo Barrett announced was the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, which ran Feb. 9-26, 2017; he was 87. Fellow ProRodeo Hall of Fame announcer Randy Corley worked San Antonio with Barrett, who also was his father-in-law. Randy is married to Hadley’s daughter Michelle Corley.“I think winning this award would rank really, really high to Hadley,”Randy said. “Other people who have won this award were all friends of his, and he would really feel that this has placed him among some awfully good people.”Barrett became a PRCA member in 1965. He was the voice of the Sidney (Iowa) Championship Rodeo starting in 1983, worked the Buffalo Bill Rodeo (North Platte, Neb.) for more than 30 years, the Greeley (Colo.) Stampede for more than 20 years and worked for more than a decade at Cheyenne (Wyo.) Frontier Days.

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